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This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniellowww.microbe.tv
TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.
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Episodes

TWiV #129 - We've got mail

Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Rich answer listener questions about XMRV, yellow fever vaccine, virus-like particles, West Nile virus, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and human endogenous retroviruses, multiplicity of infection, and how to make a poxvirus.

Apr 17, 20111 hr 33 min

TWiV #128 - Virologists in the mist

Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Welkin review how a virus regulates the severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics, and human metapneumovirus infection in gorillas.

Apr 10, 20111 hr 32 min

TWiV #127 - Viruses are no joke

Vincent, Alan, and Rich explore a novel bunyavirus isolated in China, the recent polio outbreak in Republic of the Congo, and cell to cell transmission of a retrovirus by biofilm-like extracellular assemblies.

Apr 03, 20111 hr 26 min

TWiV #126 - Wart's up, doc?

Virologist Michelle Ozbun and the TWiV team review the biology of human papillomaviruses.

Mar 27, 20111 hr 36 min

TWiV #125 - TWiV infects FiB

This Week in Virology and Futures in Biotech join together in a science mashup to talk about a virophage at the origin of DNA transposons, and unintended spread of a recombinant retrovirus.

Mar 20, 20111 hr 21 min

TWiV #124 - Viruses that make you better

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, Rich, and Grant discuss a tanapoxvirus protein that inhibits tumor necrosis factor, purging tumors with myxoma virus, and destruction of the last known stocks of smallpox virus.

Mar 13, 20110

TWiV #122 - More fun than a monkey full of viruses

The complete TWiV crew teams up with Welkin Johnson to explore the other AIDS epidemic, infection of monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus, and its restriction by the cellular protein TRIM5.

Feb 27, 20111 hr 47 min

TWiV #121 - Huskies go viral

A conversation about careers in virology, systems biology, innate immunity, and antiviral research recorded at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Feb 20, 20111 hr 30 min

TWiV 120: Ed Niles, a Km Vmax kind of guy

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Rich Condit , and Ed Niles Vincent, Rich, and Ed discuss the transition from academic scientist to government work, the general program of drug and vaccine development in the biodefense world and at BARDA, and career opportunities for scientists in government. Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode: ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine Bavarian Nordic's smallpox vaccine Imvamune and phase II trial Rich and Ed's paper on bacteriophage T7 mRNAs Quandaries of dengue vaccin...

Feb 13, 20111 hr 47 min

TWiV #118 - The virus always rings twice

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about vaccinia virus, fungal viruses, synthetic viruses, influenza vaccine, HeLa cells, multiplicity of infection, and much more.

Jan 30, 20111 hr 35 min

TWiV #116 - Cocaine, colonies, and chickens

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich review an adenovirus-based vaccine strategy against drug addiction, a field trial of RNAi to prevent Israeli acute paralysis virus infection in honeybees, and suppression of avian influenza transmission in transgenic chickens.

Jan 16, 20111 hr 29 min

TWiV #115 - Color me infected

Vincent, Alan, Rich and Marc discuss the finding that a limited number of incoming herpesviral genomes can replicate and express in a cell, and controlling viral replication inAedes aegypti with a Wolbachia symbiont.

Jan 09, 20111 hr 57 min

TWiV #113 - Alan Rein on XMRV

Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss the retrovirus XMRV with retrovirologist Alan Rein of the National Cancer Institute.

Dec 26, 20101 hr 16 min

TWiV #112 - Creating a killer poxvirus

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the making of a virulent poxvirus by insertion of the gene encoding IL-4, and severe 2009 H1N1 influenza due to pathogenic immune complexes.

Dec 19, 20101 hr 38 min

TWiV #110 - CSI virology

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson discuss bacteria that can utilize arsenic in place of phosphorus, the passing of Frank Fenner, polio outbreak in The Congo, solving criminal cases of HIV transmission, and classifying viruses by capsid structure.

Dec 05, 20101 hr 34 min

TWiV #109 - Virologia en México

Vincent visits Mexico City and speaks with Rosa Maria del Angel and Ana Lorena Gutiérrez about virology in Mexico, and their work on dengue and caliciviruses.

Nov 29, 20101 hr 20 min

TWiV #108 - Barking up the right Tre

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Saul review the evolution of HIV-1 specific recombinases, and down-regulation of a host microRNA by a viral noncoding RNA.

Nov 21, 20101 hr 29 min

TWiV #106 - Making viral DNA II

Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a second installment of their discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information.

Nov 06, 20101 hr 35 min

TWiV #105 - Finches score again

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich review eradication of rinderpest, endogenous hepatitis B virus in the zebra finch genome, and identification of the cell receptor for an extinct retrovirus.

Oct 31, 20101 hr 32 min

TWiV #104 - The colony-collapse blues

The entire TWiV family reviews the latest ideas about colony collapse disorder of honeybees, and resurgence of monkeypox in Africa.

Oct 25, 20101 hr 37 min

TWiV #103 - Shots with LJ Tan

Vincent and Alan discuss influenza vaccines with LJ Tan of the American Medical Association.

Oct 17, 20101 hr 17 min

TWiV #102 - Catch me if you can in Munich

A conversation about the RNA sensor RIG-I, adenovirus gene therapy, a universal influenza vaccine, and rabies virus, recorded in Munich, Germany at the SFB455 symposium ‘Viral offense and immune defense’.

Oct 11, 20101 hr 35 min

TWiV #101 - Sizing up adenovirus

Vincent, Alan, Rich, Dickson, and Hamish review the three-dimensional structure of adenovirus, and the role of adenovirus type 36 in obesity.

Oct 03, 20101 hr 16 min

TWiV #100 - TWiV catches a big fish

Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 100th episode of TWiV by talking about viruses with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore.

Sep 26, 20101 hr 34 min
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